“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

“I don’t want to lose the boy with the bread.”

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”

“Resist much, obey little.”

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

“The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.”